Belmont, I love your posts. Yes, I have heard a lot of stories about "The Avenue" in North Newark from old timers. The newer BYOB place on the Avenue in Newark called Luigi's is pretty good. I love the Belmont Tavern and they still have that Shrimp dish on the menu named after Beeps Centorino in the Philly LCN North Jersey crew, but yea you're right these days the Tavern is mostly civilians now who are not involved in the life at all.....Jimmy is still behind the bar there though!!

You ever run into Big Lou Fazzini, he's basically the guy now running the day to day things in Scoop's gambling ring crew in the Newark area. He's a pretty serious guy....